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Date: 17 March 2013

Case Scenario: A thirty-nine year-old woman known to your emergency department with a long history of migraine headaches presents in her usual way. There is nothing to suggest anything other than her typical migraine headache. You treat her successfully with IV fluids, DHE and metoclopramide. She is feeling much better…

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Date:  10 March 2013

Case Scenario: 62 year-old man presents to the emergency department feeling weak. His vital signs at triage are normal but his glucometer reading is high. He is a known type 2 diabetic and states his sugars have been running a little high lately. After conducting an appropriate history and directed…

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Date: March 3rd, 2013

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anthony Crocco MD FRCPC, Deputy Chief, Pediatric Emergency Department, McMaster Children’s Hospital Assistant Clinical Professor, McMaster University, Member of the BEEM Dream Team.

Case Scenario: Five year old boy presents to the emergency department with a 2 day history of rhinorrhea and congestion. He has been coughing…

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Date:  24 February 2013

Title: Who Are You? (Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine)

This is the 25th podcast of the Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. Every so often I like to take a 10,000 foot view of things. In previous episodes we have looked at the top five FOAMed sites and the Choosing Wisely…

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Date:  17 February 2013

Title: The Strokes (Stroke Prevention Clopidogrel)

Case Scenario: 68yo man arrives to the ED with 15 minutes of tingling in his right arm and leg. He has a history of hypertension and previous TIA. The examination is completely normal. He is already taking ASA 325mg OD.

Background: Stroke is a…

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Date:  10 February 2013

Case Scenario: 28-year-old woman presents to the emergency department at 2am with steadily increasing right lower quadrant (RLQ) pain. She has a past medical history of ovarian cysts. Her vital signs are stable, afebrile and tender over the RLQ. The blood work is unremarkable and specifically her pregnancy test is…

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Date:  3 February 2013

Case Scenario: 21-year-old presents to the emergency department at 8am very distraught. She reports the condom broke last night during intercourse and requests the morning after pill.

Background: Each year here are more than 40 million aborted pregnancies worldwide. Primary prevention of pregnancy is advocated with induced abortion as the…

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Date:  27 January 2013

Case Scenario: Stop, collaborate and listen. TheSGEM is back with a brand new edition. A 72yo man has witnessed arrest while watching his grandson’s hockey game. By-standard CPR is started and he shocked out of ventricular fibrillation using the automatic external defibrillator (AED). EMS arrives and finds an patient with…

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Date: January 20th, 2013

Case Scenario: You walk into the emergency department for your shift and find chairs completely full of patients with flu-like illnesses. The triage nurses look exhausted and are discussing the flu shots. The conversation appears quite animated with strong opinions being expressed. They turn to you as the doctor and…

Don’t Panic! Here the first 13 podcasts from TheSGEM.

I am not sure why iTunes does not show them any more? I have contacted them and trying to work it out. You can still find all the old podcasts on TheSGEM website attached to their blog entries. However, people like to subscribe to iTunes and…